<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div xml:lang="eng" type="translation" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="act" n="4"><div type="textpart" subtype="scene" n="2"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="727b" part="F">  I’ faith, and so she seems.</l></sp><sp><speaker>LAMPADISCUS</speaker><stage>(aside.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="728" part="I">  She imitates a worthless animal and a mischievous.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PHANOSTRATA</speaker><stage>(aside.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="728b" part="F">Which one, prithee?</l></sp><sp><speaker>LAMPADISCUS</speaker><lb/><stage>(aside.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="729">A caterpillar, which twisting about winds itself in the leaf of the vine; </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" n="730">just in the same way does she begin a story that twists about. <stage>(To HALISCA.)</stage> What are you looking for?</l></sp><sp><speaker>HALISCA</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="731b" part="F"> A casket, my good young man, has flown away from me here. </l></sp><sp><speaker>LAMPADISCUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="732" part="I"> You ought to have put it in a cage.</l></sp><sp><speaker>HALISCA</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="732b" part="F"> I’ faith, the booty was no great one.</l></sp><sp><speaker>LAMPADISCUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="733"> It’s a wonder, if a whole troop of slaves<note resp="editor"><q rend="double">Troop of slaves</q>: This is said in allusion to the runaway propensities of slaves.</note> isn’t there in the casket.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PHANOSTRATA</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="734" part="I"> Do let her speak. </l></sp><sp><speaker>LAMPADISCUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="734b" part="M"> If indeed she would speak.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PHANOSTRATA</speaker><stage>(to HALISCA.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="734c" part="F">  Come say you, what was in it?</l></sp><sp><speaker>HALISCA</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="735" part="I"> Trinkets only. </l></sp><sp><speaker>LAMPADISCUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="735b" part="F"> There’s a certain man, who declares that he knows where it is.</l></sp><sp><speaker>HALISCA</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="736"> But, by my faith, he’ll confer an obligation on a certain woman if he’ll discover it. </l></sp><sp><speaker>LAMPADISCUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi007.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="737" part="I"> But this certain man wishes a reward to be given to him.</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>